The ÖTV team player is in the quarter-finals – and Nico Hipfl is already in the men’s double finals.
The week before last, Tamara Kostic reached a final in the ITF W35 category for the first time at the hard court tournament in Yecla (Spain). Now the 18-year-old is aiming to repeat this success at this week’s home game in Warmbad Villach. The Viennese already made it into the quarter-finals of the first event of this year’s three-week Carinthian Ladies Lake’s Trophy in the Warmbad Villach sports park on Wednesday. Kostic (WTA 675), equipped with a main competition wildcard, defeated the Italian Sofia Rocchetti (WTA 413) in the round of 16 after a fight that lasted around 2:25 hours with 6:1, 3:6, 7:6 (2). In the third set she was already 0:2, 2:3, 3:4 and 5:6 behind with a break and was only two points away from the end. Instead, on Thursday from 10:30 a.m. she will challenge the Argentine qualifier and former world number 59 for the first time in the fight for a place in the semi-finals. Paula Ormaechea (WTA 919). In the doubles competition, however, the last Austrians have now been eliminated: the ÖTV contract players Claudia Gasparovic and Leonie Rabl lost out in the quarter-finals against the top-seeded Czechs Karolína Kubánová and Renata Vorácová with 3:6, 1:6.
Hipfl also makes headlines in doubles
In the ITF M15 men’s tournament, which was taking place at the same time, all four Austrians had to say goodbye in the singles on Wednesday in the round of 16. The Carinthian host Tobias Smoliner (ATP -) lost to the eighth-seeded Czech Daniel Paty (ATP 698) 3:6, 3:6, the Upper Austrian Gregor Ramskogler (ATP 1986) lost to the sixth-seeded Italian Luca Giacomini (ATP 598) with 1:6, 4:6, the Viennese Paul Werren (ATP 1359) beat the Slovenian Matic Kriznik (ATP 1156), via the junior reserved place in the main competition, 4:6, 3:6. The domestic trio were each equipped with a wild card. Nico Hipfl, however, first had to earn his place in the main field through two qualifying victories over ATP-ranked opponents. With a 6:3, 3:6, 6:4 over the Czech Jiri Barnat (ATP 752), he fortunately won his first ATP point in only his second start at an international men’s tournament. In the second round, the newly crowned Spring Bowl winner also lost 3:6, 2:6 against top-ranked Jerome Kym (ATP 478), who trains with his uncle, ex-professional Markus Hipfl. Together with the Swiss, the Upper Austrian is even in his first double final. After a 6:3, 1:6 and 10:8 in the match tiebreaker over the second seeds Jan Hrazdil (Czech Republic) and Patrick Zahraj (Germany), Hipfl/Kym also beat Lukas Rohseano and Tamas Földi (Hungary) with 7:6 (3) , 6:3. The opponents in the semi-final, the Italians Luca Castagnola and Matteo Fondriest, then gave up, in the second semi-final Yanick Schneider and Smoliner duel with Milos Karol (Slovakia) and Adrian Oetzbach (Germany), who were ranked first.
2024-05-16 06:48:44
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